The Happiness Industry by William Davies
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"Martin Seligman's experiments on 'learned helplessness', in which he showed that if you electrocuted a dog enough it would eventually cease to resist, helped to map out a new understanding of depression."
"I thought that maybe we could do this precisely because we're all unreasonable people and progress depends on our changing the world to fit us.
Not the other way around."
HCF-1X2
'Without light, I can't understand the room.'
'Maybe they never needed to invent computers.'
'Project Hail Mary' by Andy Weir
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PS. I'm so happy with the actress they picked for Stratt, that I'm going to watch 'Toni Erdmann (2016)' again.
At this moment, if I had to name the bravest people on the planet I’ve ever known, the list would go like this:
1. The Tiananmen man (Tank man)
2. Robbie Williams (Better Man)
"Samad shrugged, went into the kitchen drawer and fished out the earphones that could be plugged into the television and thus short-circuit the outside world"
'White Teeth' by Zadie Smith
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"No one gasses himself on my property, we're not licensed. Do u hear that, mister? We're not licensed for suicides around here. This place halal. Kosher, understand? If you're going to die round here... you've got to be thoroughly bled first."